Unable to see all computers on network from Bravia TV

[Thwack]

Hi All

 

I've a small network at home and have just bought a Sony Bravia TV complete with Sony wifi dongle.

The TV appears to be setup OK as I can see my vista laptop from the TV and view content on the laptop from the TV.

However, I cannot see the "big" PC where all my films are stored.

 

I'm running windows 7 ultimate 64bit with a "default" installation.

 

So far I've

 

• Turned on "Automatically allow devices to play my media" - no change
  
• Turned on "allow remote control of Player" - no change
  
• turned off the firewall - no change
  
• installed "serviio" media streaming - no change
  
• uninstalled the media centre components of windows 7 - I can now see the "Big PCs" shared media icon from the laptop but not on the TV.
  
• removed all PC from the "home group" - no change
  

As I support PC for a living I'm getting a fair bit of flac for this issue not being resolved.:mad:

 

Any help\advice greatly received.

...otherwise I'll be doing a reinstall and paying a little more attention to the questions asked...:o

 

It seems to me to be a permissions\security issue on the Win 7 box but i've no idea where to start with streaming media.. and I'm probably wrong:eek:

 

Cheers

 

Danny

[Dalo Harkin]

First of all you would need to check that the media player is up to date and installed on the W7 PC, It may be there, but if its never been opened or configured I doubt it would see it..I am guessing that your TV accesses it through WMC (windows media centre) and there are options in there that also need configuring for devices..

 

Is the TV searching individual PCs or your network, how are the PCs connected to the network, wireless or ethernet? all drivers up to date on the NICs?

[Thwack]

First of all you would need to check that the media player is up to date and installed on the W7 PC, It may be there, but if its never been opened or configured I doubt it would see it..I am guessing that your TV accesses it through WMC (windows media centre) and there are options in there that also need configuring for devices..

 

Is the TV searching individual PCs or your network, how are the PCs connected to the network, wireless or ethernet? all drivers up to date on the NICs?

 

Thanks for a prompt reply Dalo :)

 

Windows media player up to date? Hmmm not sure will check - thank you.

The TV access it via wifi and looks for media servers with DLNA - I believe.... but i don't know how the PCs broadcast DLNA..

The TV scans the network and brings back a list of servers it "finds" It never finds the big PC.

The big PC is hard wired to the router.

The laptop is wireless (G) to the router.. as is the TV..

Drivers ??? default ones on the windows 7 system, - I'll check them too.

 

Thanks for the prompts, looks like I'm getting complacent in my old age...:o

 

Danny

[Dalo Harkin]

Ok, so when it finds some of the PCs it should bring them up as little white boxes saying the name of the PC next to it (if you have re named them all that is) otherwise they will be set at the manufacturers defaults.

 

It will be recognising them through windows media connect...so yeah you need to check that the media player is at least been opened once and ran and configured then the TV 'should' see it

 

The next problem that you will have is that the files that you wish to access from the PC HAVE to be in the 3 folders that the TV can 'see' which are the default MUSIC, VIDEO, PICTURES folders within windows, if like me you have a few PCs and a main PC and some servers - some of the more modern server OS's like WHS and Server 2008 have the ability to stream as part of the OS and being server based handle all their own backup/recovery side :)

Edited December 23, 2010 by Dalo Harkin